Senior Strategic Development & Planning - Senior Vice President

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About the Role

iCapital is looking to hire a Senior Vice President of Strategic Development and Planning to join the Business Excellence organization within Operations and Investment Product Management (OIPM). This highly visible and collaborative role will serve as a strategic partner to the OIPM leadership team and support the continued growth and evolution of the organization. The position will focus on strengthening scalability, operational effectiveness, and organizational performance across OIPM. The ideal candidate brings strong strategic, analytical, and business planning capabilities, along with exceptional leadership and stakeholder management skills. Success in this role requires navigating complex challenges, influencing executive-level discussions, and operating effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Build, develop, and lead a high-performing team, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and excellence.
• Lead annual and multi-year strategic planning processes for Fund Operations and related functions, ensuring alignment with OIPM and firmwide priorities.
• Lead large-scale business transformation and change management initiatives focused on scalability, operational effectiveness, organizational alignment, sustainable growth, and business process improvement.
• Translate strategic priorities into actionable initiatives with clear objectives, milestones, success metrics, and accountability.
• Partner with senior leaders to align business priorities, drive decision-making, and ensure successful execution across functions.
• Oversee OIPM's strategic initiative portfolio, ensuring resources, investments, and priorities align with business objectives and long-term goals.
• Provide executive governance and oversight for critical business initiatives, ensuring timely execution, risk mitigation, measurable outcomes, consistency, transparency, and accountability across OIPM and the COO organization.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration across teams, serving as a trusted advisor and catalyst for organizational alignment and execution.
• Prepare strategic recommendations, business cases, and executive-level materials to support investment decisions, prioritization, and long-term planning.
• Synthesize complex operational, financial, and business data into actionable insights and compelling narratives for senior executives.
• Conduct strategic analyses of new business opportunities, including market assessments, competitive benchmarking, financial modeling, and operational impact evaluations.
• Partner with senior leaders to develop and oversee acquisition integration strategies, ensuring seamless transitions and realization of business objectives.
• Develop and maintain executive dashboards, scorecards, performance reporting frameworks, governance standards, execution frameworks, and performance management processes, while building deep expertise in the fi

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• Strong business acumen with the ability to translate complex challenges into actionable strategies, business cases, and measurable outcomes
• Experience developing strategic recommendations and executive-level materials for leadership teams, executive committees, and board-level audiences
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and financial modeling capabilities, with the ability to synthesize complex operational and financial data into clear, actionable insights
• Strong communication, executive presence, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills, with proficiency in data visualization, reporting, and business intelligence tools used to support decision-making and performance management

Benefits

The base salary range for this role is $200,000 to $250,000. iCapital offers a compensation package which includes salary, equity for all full-time employees, and an annual performance bonus. Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer matched retirement plan, generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling, parental leave, and unlimited paid time off (PTO).

We believe the best ideas and innovation happen when we are together. Employees in this role will work in the office Monday-Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday.

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